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NEWSPAPER OF THE SAUSH, PEND d'OREILLE AND KOOTENAI TRIBES OF THE FLATHEAD INDIAN RESERVATION, WESTERN MONTANA
VOLUME 10 NUMBER 23
NEW MOON OF THE YELLOWBELLS
APRIL 15, 1982
The New Building makes its debut as quarterly meeting site
The Tribal Council inaugerated The New Building (the Tribal Complex's almost-completed north annex, which we're not calling the BIA building anymore...) April 2 when 1982's second quarterly Council meeting was convened there.
A respectably sized group watched the Council take care of business in their new chambers: Shoreline Protection Ordinance - Lake County's
NTPC's pipeline
is shot down in Washington state
Washington Governor John Spellman decided April 8 that Northern Tier Pipeline Company's proposed oil pipeline posed too great a threat to his state's environment.
Saying the protection of Puget Sound's environment outweighed any of the pipeline's benefits, Spellman rejected NTPC's application to cross Washington with its 1,500-mile-long crude oil pipeline.
Company officials say they'll keep on trying. They've invested fifty million dollars and six-and-a-half years' effort in getting approval of their project. They've been successful, too, in some measure, because four state governments, a federal agency, and the CSK Tribes have all given permission for the pipeline to cross their lands and/or waterways.
Two presidential administrations favor the pipeline, too, "on the basis of national defense and the country's energy needs".
NTPC is reported to be pursuing ways of reversing Spellman's decision.
commissioners will be asked to serve on a regulating board with Tribal officials. Enforcement of the controversial Tribal ordinance won't occur until everyone has had his final day in court.
Catering service for The New Building — Previous action to accept one of four bids to feed the employees housed in the north annex was rescinded. All of the presentations are going to be reconsidered.
Government surplus cheese ~ Mission's commodity warehouse can't be used for either the storage or the distribution of several hundred pounds of D.C. cheese due to arrive here in the near future. Several Poison senior citizen ladies offered to help Fred Houle, Jr., and E.W. Morigeau figure something out.
BIA's "very grim" 1984 money prospects - Every year, the Bureau of Indian Affairs goes through this exercise where they figure out four different budgets, based on certain percentages of their current funding level. This year's exercise, destined for use in fiscal year 1984, resulted in some bad news: there's going to be some RIF-ing (RIF is bureaucratese for " 'reduction-in-force' because we're
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INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Musical chairs................................Page 3
Indian water rights in the 80's..................Page 7
"Letters to the Editor".........................Page 8
When the Mountain Was Ours.................Page 13